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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2671420" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON10/15/05SEGMENT 135“What Did Happen to Elaydren’s Second Team?”The shifter successfully led the team around the Hill giants and it was only a matter of days before reaching the Dark Hills.  This was easy money.  Once this mission was over, his life dept would be over to Captain Grappler.  Damn that human for pulling him out of the ooze and paying for his two legs and hand to be regrown.Then he stops.  Something in the air.  The cold makes some smells stand out.  The smell of the undead is among these to him.The shifter carefully moves up to the edge of a clearing.  He is amazed by what he sees.  A sky craft heavily damaged and tied to a large standing stone in the field.  He eyes it further and sees the emblem of the Emerald Claw.  The shifter can’t help himself.  He growls and the hair rises on his back and neck.  He was put into that prison where he was almost consumed by an ooze because of them.  The shifter watches and spies on the crew.  There are a dozen soldiers and many skeletons.  A large barrel chested man seems to be in charge.  The ship shows signs of fire damage.  So why does he smell undead?Suddenly he hears something rushing through the forest behind him.  He turns and sees a deer running in utter fear.  “What the ….”   Then he can hear yells and the sound of their warforged warlock releasing energy.  The shifter takes off knowing his party is under attack.It takes him I minute to reach them.  What he sees amazes him.  Several Hill Giant skeletons are attacking the party.  Skeletons of animals and other humanoids also are arriving at the melee also.  He sees several Emerald Claw soldiers surrounding a mage.  That is the source of the necromancy he can sense and smell.He surveys the land and sees Fodder is dead, their rogue.  Gabby is dead, their mage.  Jax is down but not dead.  He was their psychic warrior.  Cannon is hard pressed.  He is their warforged warlock.  It takes a moment to find Grappler.  Then he sees he is everywhere.  One of the skeletons is a troll and it remembers a favorite tactic.Cannon steps onto a soft area and the ground collapses under him.  Possibly an underground cave or sinkhole.  The area is full of these natural and unnatural tunnels.   So far they do not see him.  Since Grappler is dead, they will not.  The shifter ranger takes to the forest and blends in quickly.</blockquote>

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